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Sick of losing, the coach of Finland's worst cheerleading team is inspired to push her team to victory after visiting the world champions in Texas, but soon discovers that adolescence has more pressing priorities for her troubled students.
In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die.
In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.
An author travels on Spanish plains to find the magic music device of his youth, the Jukebox. (Inspired by a book of Peter Handke, Nobel prize 2019)
Behind the scenes documentary of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest
A short dance film about a hard journey from the sea to the top, and back.
A documentary film about Winter War between Finland and Soviet Union.
The experimental documentary depicts the flow of water as a metaphor for Sámi people under pressure in modern times. The film deals with water as a sacred element, pathway and daily source of sustenance for the Sámi people. The poetic essence of the narration comes from Pedar Jalvi, Finland’s first Sámi writer, who describes the connection with water in his poem Muohtačalmmit.
Portrait of the Chilean community in Finland from the perspective of the director, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.
Jasmin Britney loves princess dresses and everything that glitters and shines. Her biggest passion is high-heeled Christian Louboutin shoes that are impossible to walk in.
A documentary about the city of Tampere, Finland, and its citizens.
Presentation film of the city of Pori on its 400th anniversary.
Featuring shocking, never-before-seen law enforcement video surrendered by a disgraced officer, End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of the indigenous women who establish a peaceful camp in protest of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence.
When the elder brother brings his younger brother to DIY rehab at their family's summer cottage, a ghost from the younger brother's past waits below the surface.
A workaholic deliveryman struggles not to be terminated by the flashy social butterfly screaming inside him.
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.
A documentary film about the phases of a family and the cycle of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change the direction of development, even just for one summer.
A Seat with a View is a film that takes us on a journey with three children sitting as passengers on a bicycle. It is a depiction of those mythical moments experienced along the way: what is seen and what thoughts arise when one is “on board”.
Matti and Mikko play for Finland's worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men.
Short film by Hanna Bergholm.
Hervanta is being stalked by a mysterious serial killer who uses his video camera to film the murders he commits. For some reason, this sneaky psychopath sends the murder videos he made to inspector Kallinen. Kallinen goes to solve the crime with his partner detective Kuokka. A lot of people have to die before the story gets into the solved cases folder...
A sensitive short film about a first kiss. It is a story about Ville, a twelwe-year-old boy, who receives a letter from Sirkka. Sirkka wants to meet and to kiss him.
In Berlin, Selim suddenly gets to accompany the famous opera diva Maikki Järnefelt to a concert. Despite Maikki's family, they fall in love on a concert tour. When the awkward triangle drama is over, this bohemian couple loves deeply and struggles hard.
What happens when you are just one among others?
"Häiden Vietto Karjalan Runomailla" ( Karelian Wedding In The Land Of The Kalevala ) is an early and valuable documentary ( more exactly, a recreation ), an ethnological Finnish silent film about a traditional Karelian wedding. It was the work of an expedition of Finnish ethnologists in the silent year of 1920, headed by Herr A. O. Väisänen of the Kalevala society.
The piece is a portrait of a narcissist. His boss and colleagues admire him and his ex-wife, mistress and girlfriend tell their view of him. The film consists of monologues performed in the form of tableau vivants that refer to art historical compositions. A possible crime story is built up by the testimonies of the people around the man.
The Dijon Story dives with unexpected consequences into the life of four Finnish hipsters in Berlin.
On the stage of the Finnish National Opera, Mexican-Finnish choreographer Javier Torres López transposes the legendary romantic ballet to 1950s Italy. A feminist reinterpretation, faithful to the captivating beauty of the original.
Restricted by her lifelong agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents’ house. Finding relief from her fears in the faces and lives of old film stars, she pastes their images alongside those of her deceased family on the walls of her house, creating a kaleidoscopic collage that mixes personal history with Hollywood fantasy. Told first-hand via freewheeling monologues, Portrait of Kaye is a bittersweet portrait of a woman forming her own unique identity while navigating the conflicting influences of her mother’s bawdy humour and her father’s anxieties. Now 74 and recently widowed, her infatuation with a younger neighbour gives her an opportunity to explore personal and sexual freedoms that have always been hidden away. Shot over two years, former next-door neighbour and music video director Ben Reed has assembled a unique and touching meditation on family, film and the meaning of freedom.
A documentary about the making of Star Wreck VI: In The Pirkinning.
Thirty-year-old Juppe returns to Finland to be with his dying mother, but his criminal past won’t leave him alone. Taina is a single mother living in a suburb with her mute son. They fall in love—but will they live happily ever after?
An immigrant saying "Hello" to unknown lands. A recreation of old fantasy video games through irony, in which the protagonist and his Wizard guide companion, face strange situations that allude to the absurd nature of the immigrant's journey.
70th anniversary celebrations of the Student Union Singers.
A dramatized documentary about juvenile delinquency, its causes and prevention, juvenile prison, and the care, education, and adaptation to civilian life of released juvenile prisoners.
Marco, a lovable but stubborn and stingy man, decides to steal a Christmas tree from the forest during a blizzard. Trouble arises when his girlfriend, Vera, learns about the plan, and doesn’t approve of it. Upset, she leaves Marco to his own devices and heads home. Alone in the forest, Marco has to learn how to ask for forgiveness.
A sequel to the film Katrin ensimmäinen rakkaus. Katri and Kaitsu have two children and try cope with their situation while Kaitsu goes to the army.
Documentary about skinheads in Finland.
The emergency situation is looming as Agent Helander, who possesses crucial information, has been captured by guerrillas on enemy territory.
Two high schoolers experiment with the means and ways of traditional witchcraft, a bride with a secret has second thoughts on her wedding day, and a loving couple quietly prepares their family for the cataclysmic event to come. Six spellbinding stories about private passions, stolen moments and the bonds we form when the world isn't looking.
Not being capable to move forward with his life, a man lingers in the moment where it all began.
Timo meets the woman of his dreams in a weird bar complex. He fuels his alcoholic tendencies by seducing the ghost trapped in a limbo of underachieving.
Experimental short film about a birch log with a soul and a pair of skis.
An amateur set of images, an attempt to make a political documentary about the middle class revolution turns into an essay on the relationship between perception and interest.
One of several experimental films shot in the late '60s and early '70s by the recently deceased computer music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, Florence is a dazzling, abstract travelogue shot between Italy, Switzerland, and the artist's home in Finland.
Anna, the mistress of Riihala, runs the farm while her idle husband drinks and their heir, Antti, courts Elma, a maid from the neighboring farm. Anna hopes that her son will marry Elina, a girl from the Kalteva farm, but she is disappointed.
Happened in Prague on a cold February evening, 1917: the poor violinist's atrium runs out of coal and his dancing mouse becomes ill. The coal bucket is empty, and without sparing any effort, the faithful bucket rides its master through the air towards the home of the carbon trader...
A short film about Lapland
What would you like to see if you couldn’t see any more? A blind mother and her seven-year-old son teach each other how to navigate the world as his vision slowly fades and a new life awaits.
Tero, 28, from Northern Finland is becoming a father, but has not yet told anybody. One Saturday night in December his friend Saku comes for a visit, bringing Tero two pairs of baby overalls. For some reason the whole village has heard the news. The boys decide to make a toast for fatherhood.
A bullied student strikes back.
Eve Jaakkola, the mother of Jyri Jaakkola, who was shot in Mexico, tried for more than six years to bring her son's murderers to justice. The mother's legal battle turned into a struggle against the Mexican culture of impunity.
About a boy, with Meänkieli as his mother tongue, takes his first moped trip on the day he turns 15. He is stopped by local policeman, who also speaks Meänkieli. An unpleasant situation arises and the boy becomes abused.